THE NEW YORKER worried by my lack of appetite for din- ner. In answer to her questions, I mere- ly insisted I wasn't hungry. She there- upon hauled me off to our doctor, an American. When he told her I was gaining weight, she grew even more concerned, figuring, I suppose, that I was sufferIng from some mysterious Oriental malady. A day or two later, Mother found out the truth. She visIted the convent at lunchtime to have a talk with my teach- ers and discovered me in the midst of my harem at the moment I was pop- ping a Japanese pickle into my mouth. She got the whole story from me later that afternoon, and from then on I had to eat my sandwiches in the classroom before I could join the girls. I also had to go directly home from school. A maId was sent to fetch me-an old amah, WIse in the ways of small boys and not at all sympathetic. Father hadn't worried much about my appetIte, assuming that I was prob- ably eating away from home. He was bothered by other matters One was my habit of reciting at the dinner table some of the things I had learned in school, particularly the Ten Command- men ts. "You never know when he'll spout out the seventh or tenth," I heard him tell my mother. "That might not be so good when we have guests. Some of them might be a little sensitive." Another matter upset him still more. Two of my White Russian classmates were altar boys, and I was so impressed by the magnificent robes they wore at a Mass I attended one day that on return- ing home I announced 1 was going to be an altar boy. The fact that I couldn't become one without first becoming a Catholic never seemed to occur to Father. He was all for yanking me out of school then and there, and would have except for Mother, who remon- strated strongly with hIm "It's only another month, anyway," she concluded. "A damn good thing, too," Father said. "He'll be wanting to wear a skIrt e t '" n x . As I was to learn later, Father was actually more dIsturbed by the feminini- ty of my convent training than by the Catholicity, and although he didn't know it, his fear that I might come to prefer wearing a skirt wasn't altogether groundless. At least, I did grow some- what dissatisfied with my clothes. It was the custom at the school for the girls to curtsy to the nuns-sImply or elabo- rately, depending on the occasion. The nuns never got around to tellIng the Lyle C Harvey President of Affiliated Gas Equipment, Inc., says: ...""' \\ ..r' \ ';, \ ,.... -- {JIJ \VQ S'Of MAKES N! o X s J S O\JNTR't' PLAN1S RS OUR C .. .. LVING 11GE >- ;J I iAANKS \O : _ < 4 r - mJ 11ii - Jill IH! ;. :\ . " ... . r ' It ;. \," - í,f ,- >,,' \\ {,/ .;=;..)Ú / \'. 4 - Z \... " . ,. -r , I I \" -/' I t I..' "' '" , f" ! I . /" -=:=, .. . \ ( ,- : - .) ! , fJ '""" "'-..L. .. I II i ..". I, f := :! >... . : L: ': '-... --. . ......;;.... - .;;.. :.: : i:!; . . : . 0" . .. 7 ' N I!!!I!! ! I'S:: . nn:E .i L: :": : ;;. :t ::' :::: :::! : ii. ::: . . .;;' : ;;;:; ; : .:i ; 'j!;:1ji ri .;:: .: ;:" .JJI ... YOU MEAN THEY BORROW EACH OTHERS EQUIPMENT CROSS COUNTRY LIKE NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS BORROW SUGAR? THANKS TO US 5KYJOCKEYS, YES. 127 prf. .. WHAT GIVES CAr: WITH THIS OPERATION \\CUP-OF-SUGAR"? SIMPLY THAT BRYANT HERE IN CLEVELAND AND THE PAYNE FURNACE,AND DAY & NIGHT PLANTS IN l.A. EXCHANGE TOOLS . AND PARTS. WE FLY 'EM. . ,. . .# . . .## . .J}.þ...#; . '- ...";:: . ,- .iff -!!u I ! i . · .. . . :S::" 4Ii iJl .... . < 4 ; ï '-- 1 . .J / : ) .i;...... ::: "t H 1&<.: . :-. ( . f' r:"// "... "- ....... ...., . ,:.;.'.::, J '-J w "' I.. . : . I ----.....: 1 l:1 . - :.. . . ....Q , . "'. -.. "1 ..., e .' . ....... ',. ., ". '" I .... ....... WE'vE CUT A LOT OF OUR --::5 TOOLING AND INVENTORY l- -: :; COSTS IN HALF SINCE WE /__ STARTED OPERATION "CUP-OF-SUGAR '1 . Thousands of America's leading companies are using Flying Tiger Air Freight. Are You? ,>, ,\\ <::: , - - --. .-....... ... Ð.. FLYING TIGERS...ANOTHER BUSINESS BUILrON CAN 00' ... : '-\\ .. . .c: Write for uTHE AIR FREIGHT WAY TO lOWER COSTS AND BETTER SERVtCE U /' 4) -'" GENERAL OFFICES: LOCKHEED AIR TERMINAL BURBANK 3 CALIFORNIA. CABLE: FL YTIGER